It comes amid mounting speculation that the innocent child was used as a pawn to threaten her father Garth Campbell.

The child was returned to the Childers showgrounds near her home in the dead of night on Friday. She was in good health.

The Courier-Mail’s own investigations have further uncovered Chloe’s parents’ association with known drug dealers in Childers.

A family friend said the couple was friends with a drug-dealing family, one of whom was said to have threatened Mr Campbell nine weeks ago.

The Courier-Mail can reveal Mr Campbell was seen on a street near his house the morning Chloe was reported missing, about 20 minutes before police received the call.

It was also about 20 minutes before security footage shows two men and a child passing along the railway line behind Pioneer Park, only a few hundred metres from Chloe’s house on the same morning she vanished.

Locals say the girl and her parents regularly walk that same route from their house on the way to town.

Last week The Courier Mail reported that the vision appeared to indicate a child leading the way - as though it knew where it was going - followed by two men.

The family told the public and police that an intruder may have used an unlocked lounge room window to get into the house.

With police tape no longer blocking the street, it can be seen that a number of smashed and open windows could give an intruder access to the home.